Combined wrapper and label for bottles and boxes.



PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906.

J. H. PARRISH. COMBINED WRAPPER AND LABELFOR BOTTLES VAND BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED DEOA. 1901.

I KU671/607:

(lm MW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. PARRISH, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO OAFFEENO DRUG COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Application filed December 4, 1901. Serial No. 84,612.

To will whont it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. PARRISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Wrapper and Label for Bottles and Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined wrapper and label for bottles and boxes.

One object of the invention is to produce a wrapper and label in a single sheet which when applied to a box or bottle will permit a portion of the sheet to be removed to get at the contents, leaving the label portion of said sheet free from mutilation and in its proper position on the box or bottle.

It is the common practice at present to first apply labels to bottles or packages and to then inclose the labeled package within a separate wrapper, thus requiring the pack age to be handled twice, beside using two different sheets of printed matter. By the present invention the label and wrapper are combined in a single sheet which is applied to the package at one operation, and only one lot of printed matter is required, which results in a great reduction of the cost in the production of the article ready for sale.

With these and other objects in view the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which the combined wrapper and label is shown as applied to bottles; but it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to bottles alone, but the same may be applied to numerous other packages, such as boxes.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a side elevation of the package employing the invention. Fig. 2 illustrates the same with the wrapper partly removed. Fig. 3 shows the same with the wrapper entirely removed, leaving the label-section in its proper position on the package. Fig. 4 illustrates a top plan view of the package; Fig. 5, a bottom plan view of the same, showing that the bottom of the bottle or box is not covered. Fig. 6 shows a view of the combined wrapper and label sheet in the flat condition. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate a slight modification in applying the wrapper and label in that both the top and bottom of the package are covered.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a designates a package or vessel, which in the present instance is a bottle in which the merchandisc is packed. Around the exterior of the package or bottle the single sheet, which includes the label, is placed. This sheet is divided into two sections, asection b and a label-section c, and these two sections are separated by a line (1, which may be ruled or scored or perforated, if desired. The wrapper-section b of the sheet is folded down, as at 6, over the top of the package or bottle, thus forming a cap 6, which takes over the bottle mouth and neck, and these folds e are preferably secured together by wax or paste.

In Figs. 1 to 5 the bottom f of the package or bottle is illustrated. as being uncovered; but, if desired, it may be covered by having the sheet long enough to fold the lower edge under the bottom, as at f, in the same manner as at 6 over the top. Figs. 7 and S illustrate this modification. may be used in connection with all sizes of bottles, but is preferably applied to large bottles. In these larger bottle-packages where the neck is smaller than the body of the bottle it is also preferable that a flat cardboard or disk 9 be placed over the top of the bottle in a well-known mannner before the folds e are made.

In the present instance the label-section c of the sheet is secured by paste, gum, or mucilage around the package or bottle and is thus held in place, while the other section b of said sheet is unsecured and is loose over the package.

To open, the package, it is only necessary to grasp the same with one hand around the label-section and the other hand grasping the cap I). Then by twisting the cap with respect to the label-section the same will be separated from the label-section by breaking or rupturing on the line (1 and leaving the label-section 0 in position around the package.

The use of detachable wrappers for pack ages is well known in the art, and the employment of scored wrappers is also well known; but the use of a wrapper comprising a single sheet with a scored or perforated line in certain relation to a package having a reduced top wherein the bottom part of the wrapper or that portion below the perforated line is stuck to the body of the package is the part of the invention desired to secure by Letters Patent.

Having thus described my invention, what This modified form I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a package comprising a body portion and a neck portion,

said sheet having a perforated line extending annularly around said package at-the juncture between said larger and smaller portions, whereby the unattached part of the wrapper may be crushed inward above the larger body portion of the package and thereby separated from the attached or label portion of the sheet.

2. The combination of a package comprising a body portion and a neck or top portion smaller than the body portion, a combined wrapper and label comprising a single sheet having a scored or perforated line in such position as to approximately aline or 25 register with the point of merger of the body and reduced portion of the package, the wrapper below the scored or perforated line being stuck to the body and forming a label and the portion above the scored or perfo- 30 rated line extending over and forming a Wrapper for the neck or reduced portion of the package.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. PARRISH.

Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, Jr, CHARLES L. VIETsoI-I. 

